Knitting & Stitching at Alexandra Palace 2007

Prudence and Sheila

Ruth, Pauline, Sheila's back and half of Prudence : )

Ruth, Prudence, Ildi, Pauline and Sheila

Ildi, Xenobia, Prudence and Sheila

Crochet coral reef finished

Two weeks non-stop crocheting and the reef is finished. I was given some wonderful yarns by the Institute for Figuring http://theiff.org/ to work with. It's an experiment in shapes and textures. The stitches are mostly dc, and lots of increasing and decreasing.

Bullion crochet coral

I'm working on this right now. Bullion and bent bullion flowers. It will go to the IFF.

More: http://www.theinff.org/

FF challenge 2007

The challenge homepage:

http://www.intff.org/

My contributions:http://www.intff.org/pages/ildiko.html

Paprika

Hungary is probably most famous for this:

And Liverpool is most famous for these:

Hímzett cifraszűr, Eger, Heves megye

Hímzett cifraszűr, Eger, Heves megye
Originally uploaded by Sárika Bizarro

My love of colour comes from Hungarian folk art.

Let the pictures do the talking

I was born and grew up in the beautiful town of Pécs, Southern Hungary. It is Capital of Culture in 2010.

Main square of Pécs

Read more at http://www.pecs.hu/english/index.php?foid=2

Now I live in the beautiful city of Liverpool, UK. It is 800 years old this year and will be Capital of Culture in 2008.